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furnish matter for discussion and conversation for 

 many days. This place is quite the paradise of a 

 poetical angler; the only danger is that of satiety 

 with regard to sport ; for these great grayling and 

 trout are so little used to the artificial fly, that they 

 take almost any thing moving on the top of the water. 

 You see I have put on a salmon fly, and still they rise 

 at it, though they never can have seen any thing like 

 it before and it is, in fact, not like any thing in 

 nature. 



HAL. You are right, they have never seen any 

 thing like it before; but, in its motion, it is like a 

 large fly, and this is the season for large flies. The 

 stone fly and the May fly, you see, occasionally drop 

 upon the water, and the colour of your large fly is not 

 unlike that of the stone fly ; but if, instead of being 

 here in the beginning of July, you had visited this 

 spot, as I once did, in the beginning of June, you 

 would have found more difficulty in catching grayling 

 here, though not so much as in our English rivers 

 in the Test, the Derwent, or the Dove. 



P01ET. How could this be? 



HAL. At this season the large flies had not yet 

 appeared ; the small blue dun was on the water, and 

 I was obliged to use a fly the same as that which 

 suits our spring and late autumnal fishing. The fish 

 refused all large flies, but took greedily small ones; 



